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At the intersection of Sacred and Profane

2017/10/22 By Barry Leave a Comment

If it belongs to the emperor then give it to emperor

 This Sunday we looked at one of the more well known stories in the Gospels. Jesus is asked a leading, and potentially quite dangerous question, about taxes. There is a lot going on behind that question. The Pharisees and Herodians actually got together to try and come up with something that would neutralize or remove […]

Filed Under: Pentecost, Preaching, Sunday, Year A Tagged With: Caesar, citizen, citizenship, civil society, emperor, gospel, Jesus, Matthew, Matthew 22.15-22, preaching, society, tax, taxes

2014/10/19 By Barry Leave a Comment

Two different sermons

Today was the first time in a very long time, maybe ever (?), that I have preached two intentionally different sermons on the same day. More than once, I have found that the two sermons are quite different in the end but not in the intention but today was different. I am preaching specifically in […]

Filed Under: Pentecost, Preaching, Sunday, Year A Tagged With: herodians, pharisees, preaching, separation of church and state, taxes, worship

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